I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.
We are all alike, on the inside.
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.
Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.